"In OE., as in all the other early Teut. langs., exc. Scandinavian, this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike or disparagement" [OED]. Evil was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, ...

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Example Sentences for evils

To consider these evils, to find their remedy, is the most sore necessity of our times.

But the evils regarding the hours of study and the nature of the studies were as bad.

The evils which Mammon has wrought Mammon will never remedy.

Now learn what you must do, if you would avert all the evils which I have foretold.

In this world we shall have to endure some evils as long ...

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